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GloNt
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I told you that because my budget isn't too big ,and it doesn't allow me to buy fertilizers ..
I can make some ''homemade biologic'' fertilizers ?It would work ?
Do you know someone that made something like that ?
I had a friend that used homemade fertilizers and it worked as good as with the bought fertilizers ,but it wouldn't give me the recipe
Have a nice evening !
I can make some ''homemade biologic'' fertilizers ?It would work ?
Do you know someone that made something like that ?
I had a friend that used homemade fertilizers and it worked as good as with the bought fertilizers ,but it wouldn't give me the recipe
Have a nice evening !
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Hey GloNt, check out the Recycled Organic Living Soil thread. I compost all my food waste and make compost teas to fertilize my ladies. Also some interesting ideas at http://gilcarandang.com/ Cheap homemade fertilizers. I have just started making many of them. Cheers!
BagAppeal
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For making really cheap soil, I reccomend bio dynamic aproach.
Most bio dynamic association can provide you with the preparations needed for something like 10 dollars for a 5meter wide, 1m broad, and 1 m tall pile of stinging nettles. Let it compost, and you got some quality soil cheap as dirt. And if you want more bang for your bucks, make yourself some teas. You can also make the preaparations yourself if 10 dollars is to expensive, but that means more work. Hope this can help
Most bio dynamic association can provide you with the preparations needed for something like 10 dollars for a 5meter wide, 1m broad, and 1 m tall pile of stinging nettles. Let it compost, and you got some quality soil cheap as dirt. And if you want more bang for your bucks, make yourself some teas. You can also make the preaparations yourself if 10 dollars is to expensive, but that means more work. Hope this can help
BagAppeal
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bio dynamics is normally represented by a bio dynamic association in most countries. These try to promote bio dynamic farming, by giving information, and most times selling the preparations, due to the work that goes into making the differnent preparations can be hard and time consuming.Hope this answer your question
BagAppeal
Member
It is just organic materail piled together, and then letting time do its toll. I add the preaparations to the pile when its beeing made,502-507 is added with one teaspoon of each into separate holes in the pile, and prep 508 is watered over the pile. I hand rotate it after it has started breaking down. This eventually turns into soil good soil.
BagAppeal
Member
with organic material I mean, plant material, but animal fecies is also organic material.
I would reccomend useing stinging nettle as organic material,
Biodynamic preparations are given numbers, 500-508
each represent a different preaparation.
http://www.biodynamics.in/BD502.htm
the link above explains preparations 502-507
http://cityfoodgrowers.com.au/bd508.php
and this 508..
Hope this explains.
All the best
BagAppeal
I would reccomend useing stinging nettle as organic material,
Biodynamic preparations are given numbers, 500-508
each represent a different preaparation.
http://www.biodynamics.in/BD502.htm
the link above explains preparations 502-507
http://cityfoodgrowers.com.au/bd508.php
and this 508..
Hope this explains.
All the best
BagAppeal
BagAppeal
Member
this link should answer all your questions on preparations.
it's a bit too much too write it all down..If you make it yourself, kudos, but I myself find making it too time consuming. It's really cheap and you use so little, like in homeopathic medicine, so I support my local bidynamic association....
For the soil question.. Use 60L stingin nettle in a pile. It will turn to soil when the comosting process is done!If you already have soil, try amending it with compost made this way!
Hope this help!
All the best
BagAppeal
it's a bit too much too write it all down..If you make it yourself, kudos, but I myself find making it too time consuming. It's really cheap and you use so little, like in homeopathic medicine, so I support my local bidynamic association....
For the soil question.. Use 60L stingin nettle in a pile. It will turn to soil when the comosting process is done!If you already have soil, try amending it with compost made this way!
Hope this help!
All the best
BagAppeal
Take a look at where you live, if your out in the country you can probly find a farmer who has plenty of animal manure and other plant waste. If your anywhere near the ocean you could use fish emulsion, sea weed, shellfish shells, if your in the city you might be able to find a restaurant that will give you its food waste and you could create a compost system at your house. Try to be creative and it will go a long way, there's a lot of interesting info over in the organic soil section of this website, people get pretty creative with recycling organic materials and brewing compost teas
NYUrbanFarmer
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Joe Guy I love you profile picture!! 
one simple useful natural fertilizer for the vegative phase would be nettle tea. this has a perfect npk ratio for vegging plants. fill a bucket half full of fresh nettles i use a scissor to cut them in to 5 or 10 cm segments. then add water to the bucket to about two thirds and put a cover over it and leave to rest for 2 weeks, then you can use it 1 parts to 10 parts water as a fertilizer, but only for the veg phase, once they begin flowering you will need to look at other sources of ferts. it's not very strong when made like this, so you will have to increase the dose as the plant develops.
edit: beware it smells quite bad when in bucket, but ok once diluted for use. also you should strain it after 2 to 3 weeks and just keep the resulting liquid to use as you need with water. make a new batch every season if possible. you can store some nettles dry and use them for winter time batches.
edit: beware it smells quite bad when in bucket, but ok once diluted for use. also you should strain it after 2 to 3 weeks and just keep the resulting liquid to use as you need with water. make a new batch every season if possible. you can store some nettles dry and use them for winter time batches.
